ROMEO IS BLEEDING - hilary henkin

you ever wonder what hell is mike?
maybe it ain't the place you think
fire and brimstone,
devil with horns poking you in the butt
with a pitchfork
what's hell?
the time you should have walked
but you didn't
that's hell...
you're looking at it.

THE STALKER (excerpt) - andrei tarkovsky

Here we are at the threshold.
This is the most important moment of your lives.
You have to know that here
your most cherished wish will come true.
The most sincere one.
The one reached through suffering.

AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION (excerpt) - dylan thomas

Though they go mad they shall be sane
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion

COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL - mario de andrade

The street all naked . . . The lightless houses . . .
And the myrrh of unwitting martyrs . . .
"Let me put my handkerchief to my nose.
I have all the perfumes of Paris!"

SADNESS - mario de andrade

Deep down. Filthy my heart . . .
Look at the building: Continental Slaughterhouses.
Vices have corrupted me in false adulation without sacrifices . . .
My soul hunchbacked like the Avenue St. John . . .

AMOR - mario de andrade

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